The bongs are back - and this time for good. But as ITV announces the return of Sir Trevor McDonald to a revived News at Ten, a former editor of the programme, Stewart Purvis, tells us why it was wrong to have ditched it in the first place. And he predicts that Sir Trev is unlikely to stay for much more than a year or so. Meanwhile our podcast panel, Janine Gibson and Steve Hewlett, are still outraged about the Deloitte report into the phone-in fraud at ITV. The announcement about News at Ten, they say, was designed to deflect attention from the controversy about premium-rate phone lines - and it worked.
Also this week, we discuss the resignation of Roger Alton as editor of the Observer, and the resignation of Roy Greenslade from the NUJ. I talk to a reporter on the Irish Times who is facing jail for refusing to disclose a source, and John Plunkett joins us to discuss the latest radio listening figures.
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